{ "terms": [ { "term": "Active Set", "definition": "The top 100 orchestrators by total bonded stake eligible to receive work each round.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Agent", "definition": "A system that perceives its environment and acts autonomously to achieve goals, often powered by large language models with tool access.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "AI", "definition": "The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines – including learning, reasoning, and problem-solving – using statistical models trained on large datasets.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Arbitrum", "definition": "A Layer-2 Optimistic Rollup settling to Ethereum that processes transactions off-chain while inheriting Ethereum-grade security.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Bitrate", "definition": "The number of bits conveyed or processed per unit of time; in video it determines the data per second of content, affecting quality and file size.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Block Timestamps", "definition": "Unix timestamps embedded in each Ethereum or Arbitrum block header, used by smart contracts for time-dependent functions such as round boundaries.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "BondingManager", "definition": "The core Livepeer smart contract managing bonding, delegation, staking logic, and fund ownership on Arbitrum.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "BondingVotes", "definition": "A Livepeer smart contract tracking stake-weighted voting power snapshots for on-chain governance polls on Arbitrum L2.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Bridging", "definition": "The mechanism connecting two blockchain ecosystems to enable token or information transfer between them.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Broadcaster (deprecated)", "definition": "The legacy Livepeer term for a node that published streams and submitted video for transcoding; now replaced by the term 'Gateway.'", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "BYOC", "definition": "A deployment pattern allowing teams to supply custom Docker containers running Python workloads for Livepeer AI streaming pipelines.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Capability", "definition": "An AI service or job type – defined as a pipeline and model pair – that an orchestrator advertises as available to gateways.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "CDN", "definition": "A geographically distributed network of servers caching and delivering content with high availability and low latency to end users.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "CPU (Central Processing Unit)", "definition": "The primary general-purpose processor in a computer; in Livepeer, CPU handles node software overhead while GPU handles intensive transcoding and AI inference workloads.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "CLI", "definition": "A text-based interface for interacting with software by typing commands, used to configure and operate Livepeer gateway and orchestrator nodes.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "Codec", "definition": "Software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video using a defined algorithm, typically employing lossy compression.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Cold Start", "definition": "The latency incurred when an AI model must be loaded from storage into GPU memory before it can serve its first inference request, typically 5–90 seconds.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "ComfyStream", "definition": "A Livepeer project implementing a ComfyUI custom node that runs real-time media workflows for AI-powered video and audio processing on live streams.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Configuration Parameters", "definition": "CLI flags and environment variables that control node behavior including payment settings, pricing, preferred orchestrators, and network mode.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "ControlNet", "definition": "A neural network architecture that adds spatial conditioning controls – such as edge maps, depth, or pose – to pretrained diffusion models.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Controller", "definition": "The Livepeer registry smart contract managing all protocol contract addresses and coordinating protocol upgrades on Arbitrum.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "DAO", "definition": "An organization governed by smart contracts in which rules are encoded in code and members vote on proposals via a decentralized ledger.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "DASH", "definition": "An adaptive bitrate streaming protocol that breaks content into small HTTP-served segments at multiple bitrate levels, allowing clients to switch quality dynamically.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Decentralized GPU Network", "definition": "A marketplace of GPU resources contributed by orchestrators worldwide, coordinated through crypto-economic incentives for video transcoding and AI inference.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Delegation", "definition": "The act of LPT holders staking their tokens toward an orchestrator they trust, sharing in rewards without needing to run infrastructure themselves.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Delegator", "definition": "A token holder who stakes LPT to an orchestrator to help secure the network, participate in governance, and earn a share of rewards.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Delivery", "definition": "The stage in the video pipeline where encoded content is transmitted from origin servers or CDNs to end-user devices for playback.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "DePIN", "definition": "A category of blockchain systems that incentivize communities to collectively build and operate physical or computational infrastructure using token rewards.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Developer", "definition": "Anyone building applications using Livepeer, typically through hosted services such as Livepeer Studio, Daydream, or Streamplace, or via library SDKs.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Developer Platform", "definition": "The abstraction layer providing tools, APIs, dashboards, and hosted services – including Livepeer Studio, Daydream, and Streamplace – for building applications on top of Livepeer.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Diffusion Model", "definition": "A class of generative neural networks that learn to produce data by iteratively reversing a gradual noising process applied during training.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "ETH", "definition": "The native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, used to pay transaction fees (gas) and as the settlement currency for Livepeer transcoding and AI inference fees.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Ethereum Address", "definition": "A 42-character hexadecimal string beginning with '0x,' derived from the last 20 bytes of a public key hash, used to send and receive funds and interact with smart contracts.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Fee Cut", "definition": "The percentage of ETH job fees that an orchestrator retains before distributing the remainder to their delegators.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Fee Pool", "definition": "The pool of accumulated ETH fees earned from transcoding and AI inference jobs, distributed between orchestrators and their delegators based on stake weight and commission settings.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Gas", "definition": "The unit measuring computational effort required to execute operations on Ethereum or Arbitrum; users pay gas fees in ETH to cover execution costs.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Gateway", "definition": "A Livepeer node that submits jobs, routes work to orchestrators, manages payment flows, and provides a direct interface to the protocol.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Governance", "definition": "The on-chain system of rules and processes for protocol decision-making, including LIP proposals, stake-weighted voting, and treasury allocation.", "category": "operational", "tags": [ "operational" ] }, { "term": "Governor", "definition": "The Livepeer on-chain governance contract that authorizes protocol upgrades and parameter changes via token-weighted delegated voting.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "GPU", "definition": "A specialized parallel processor originally designed for rendering graphics, now the primary hardware for video transcoding and AI inference.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "HLS", "definition": "An adaptive bitrate streaming protocol developed by Apple that encodes video into multiple quality levels and serves them as segmented playlists over HTTP.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "HuggingFace", "definition": "An AI platform and open-source community providing model repositories, datasets, and inference APIs; a primary source for AI models deployed on Livepeer orchestrator nodes.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "ICO", "definition": "A fundraising mechanism where a blockchain project sells newly created tokens to the public in exchange for established cryptocurrencies.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Inflation", "definition": "The dynamic issuance of new LPT each round, distributed to orchestrators and delegators based on their participation, designed to incentivize staking toward a 50% target bonding rate.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Inference", "definition": "Running a trained machine learning model on new input data to produce predictions, classifications, or generated outputs.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Ingest", "definition": "The process of receiving a live video stream from a broadcaster's encoder into a media server, typically via RTMP, SRT, or WebRTC.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "JavaScript", "definition": "A high-level interpreted scripting language used for web and server-side development; Livepeer's primary SDKs and gateway clients expose JavaScript/TypeScript APIs.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "Latency", "definition": "The delay between video capture at the source and display on the viewer's device, accumulating at every stage of the pipeline.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Low-Latency", "definition": "A system characteristic where the delay between an event occurring and a response being delivered is minimised; in Livepeer, sub-500ms round-trip times are targeted for real-time AI video pipelines.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Layer 2", "definition": "A separate blockchain built on top of a Layer-1 base chain (such as Ethereum) that handles transactions off-chain while inheriting the security guarantees of the base layer.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Actor", "definition": "A participant in the Livepeer protocol or network – human or machine – that performs a defined role such as submitting jobs, providing compute, verifying work, or securing the system.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Ecosystem", "definition": "The full set of projects, tools, participants, and organizations building on or contributing to the Livepeer network, including SPEs, community tools, integrated applications, and partner services.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Explorer", "definition": "The official protocol explorer web interface for viewing network state, orchestrator information, staking data, and governance proposals.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Foundation", "definition": "A non-profit Cayman Islands Foundation Company stewarding the long-term vision, ecosystem growth, and core development of the Livepeer network.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Network", "definition": "The live, operational decentralized system of orchestrators, workers, gateways, and broadcasters performing video transcoding and AI inference jobs.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Livepeer Protocol", "definition": "The on-chain ruleset and smart contract logic governing staking, delegation, inflation, orchestrator selection, slashing, and probabilistic payments.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "LPMS", "definition": "An open-source media server library providing live video functionality including RTMP ingest and HLS output, used as the foundation for Livepeer transcoding nodes.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "LPT", "definition": "The ERC-20 governance and staking token used for orchestrator selection, delegation, reward distribution, and protocol security.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Merkle Mine", "definition": "Livepeer's algorithm for decentralized token distribution at genesis using Merkle proofs to fairly distribute initial LPT supply.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Minter", "definition": "The Livepeer smart contract responsible for minting new LPT tokens during reward calls and holding ETH collected from winning payment tickets.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Model", "definition": "A mathematical structure – a neural network with learned weights – enabling predictions or content generation for new inputs.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Network Effects", "definition": "The phenomenon where a network's value increases as more participants join, creating compounding benefits for all existing members.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Node", "definition": "Any computing device running Livepeer software and participating in protocol operations – gateway nodes, orchestrator nodes, or worker nodes.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "Off-chain", "definition": "Activities, computations, or data exchanges that occur outside the main blockchain and are not directly recorded on-chain.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "On-chain", "definition": "Actions, computations, or data that are directly recorded, executed, and verified on the blockchain with full transparency.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "On-chain Treasury", "definition": "A protocol-governed smart contract pool of LPT funded by a portion of each round's inflation, allocated to ecosystem development through community-approved proposals.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Open Source", "definition": "Software whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, use, modify, and redistribute.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Orchestrator", "definition": "A supply-side node operator contributing GPU resources to the Livepeer network, receiving jobs from gateways, performing video transcoding or AI inference, and earning LPT rewards plus ETH fees.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Payment Ticket", "definition": "A signed off-chain data structure issued by a gateway to an orchestrator representing a probabilistic payment, with a configured chance of being redeemable for ETH on-chain.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Pipeline", "definition": "A configured end-to-end AI processing workflow that defines the data flow from input through one or more model inference steps to produce output.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Protocol", "definition": "The on-chain governance and incentive layer that coordinates orchestrators, staking rewards, inflation, slashing, and job payments via smart contracts on Arbitrum.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Protocol Actor", "definition": "A main participant performing a core function in the Livepeer protocol: gateways, orchestrators, and delegators.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Quality Ladder", "definition": "An ordered set of encoding profiles from lowest to highest quality used for adaptive bitrate rendition selection in video delivery.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Real-Time AI", "definition": "Running machine learning models on live streaming input with latency low enough for interactive speeds, typically under 100 milliseconds.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Remote Signer", "definition": "A service that holds private keys securely in an isolated environment and signs transactions on behalf of a Livepeer gateway or orchestrator node.", "category": "technical", "tags": [ "technical" ] }, { "term": "Rendition", "definition": "A single encoded version of a source video at a specific resolution, bitrate, and codec configuration.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Reputation", "definition": "A measure of an orchestrator's performance, reliability, and trustworthiness that influences job routing priority and payment selection by gateways.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Reward Cut", "definition": "The percentage of inflationary LPT rewards that an orchestrator retains before distributing the remainder to their delegators.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Rollups", "definition": "Layer-2 scaling solutions that execute transactions off-chain and post compressed data or proofs to Layer 1 to inherit its security guarantees.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Round", "definition": "A discrete time interval measured in Ethereum/Arbitrum blocks during which staking rewards are calculated and protocol state is updated.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "RTMP", "definition": "A TCP-based protocol for streaming audio, video, and data over the internet, historically operating on port 1935, widely used for live video ingest.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "SDXL", "definition": "An advanced open-source text-to-image diffusion model with a larger UNet and dual text encoders producing high-resolution 1024×1024 images.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Segment", "definition": "A short time-sliced chunk of multiplexed audio and video that is independently transcoded, enabling parallel processing across multiple orchestrators.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Slashing", "definition": "A penalty mechanism that destroys a portion of an orchestrator's bonded LPT for defined protocol violations such as failing verification or submitting fraudulent results.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Slashing Conditions", "definition": "The network-defined rules specifying exactly when and how LPT is slashed: failing verification checks, skipping assigned verifications, or sustained underperformance.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "SPE", "definition": "A treasury-funded team or organization with a defined scope, budget, and accountability structure, funded by the Livepeer on-chain treasury to deliver specific protocol or ecosystem objectives.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Stake", "definition": "LPT locked in the Livepeer protocol via bonding, representing a participant's commitment and determining their share of rewards and work allocation.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Stake-for-Access", "definition": "A model where staking the protocol's native token is required to perform work or access network services, converting participation into token buying pressure.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Staking", "definition": "Locking tokens in a proof-of-stake protocol to participate in network security, governance, and earn rewards.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Streaming", "definition": "Continuous delivery of audio and video content over a network, rendered in real time as it is received rather than requiring a full download before playback.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "TAM", "definition": "The total potential revenue opportunity available to a product or service if it captured 100% of its target market.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "TensorRT", "definition": "NVIDIA's inference SDK that optimizes trained models through quantization, layer fusion, and kernel tuning to deliver low-latency GPU inference.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Tokenomics", "definition": "The economic design of a token system encompassing supply, distribution, incentive structures, staking mechanics, inflation curves, and governance rights.", "category": "web3", "tags": [ "web3" ] }, { "term": "Transcoding", "definition": "Direct digital-to-digital conversion of video from one encoding to another – changing format, resolution, bitrate, or codec – to produce multiple adaptive renditions.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Transformer", "definition": "A neural network architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data in parallel, forming the basis of most modern large language models and many vision models.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "Treasury", "definition": "The pool of LPT and ETH held on-chain for funding public goods, ecosystem development, and community-approved initiatives.", "category": "economic", "tags": [ "economic" ] }, { "term": "Verifier", "definition": "A network component responsible for validating work performed by orchestrators, confirming that transcoded or AI-processed output matches expected results.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "Warm Model", "definition": "An AI model already loaded into GPU memory and ready to serve inference requests immediately without cold-start delay.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "WebRTC", "definition": "An open-source project and W3C standard providing browsers and mobile apps with real-time peer-to-peer audio, video, and data exchange without plugins.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "WHEP", "definition": "A protocol enabling viewers to receive WebRTC streams from servers via SDP offer/answer exchange over standard HTTP, used for browser-based sub-second latency playback.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Video on Demand (VOD)", "definition": "A media delivery model where recorded video content is stored server-side and streamed to viewers on request at any time, in contrast to live streaming.", "category": "video", "tags": [ "video" ] }, { "term": "Worker", "definition": "A Livepeer node running Docker containers for AI models or transcoding processes, executing compute tasks delegated by an orchestrator.", "category": "livepeer", "tags": [ "livepeer" ] }, { "term": "World Model", "definition": "A neural network that represents and predicts environment dynamics, enabling an agent to plan future actions by simulating outcomes without interacting with the real environment.", "category": "ai", "tags": [ "ai" ] } ] }